Sentence examples for Paramount duty from inspiring English sources

General Yuan feels that his paramount duty is to preserve China from dissolution.

The Foreign Office is, as always, treading a tightrope between the paramount duty to protect British citizens and the risk of damaging an ally.

In such a case he must serve "his paramount duty to represent the public interest," withdraw from his other representations and consent to their employment of special counsel.

Mayor Koch said Mr. Maddox had a right to conduct his case as he chose and had a "paramount duty" to his client.

It is, therefore, a paramount duty of the state to make adequate provision for the education of all children residing within its borders.

Hence it is the paramount duty of society, parents and policy makers to guide, nudge, coerce and motivate children who are not yet capable of making strategic choices.

Ms. Guérin, a former professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, writes that "Cooper was the first rich man to preach year after year that wealth is a trust, carrying paramount duties and obligations".

To deepen their knowledge, to become well versed in arts and sciences and to perfect themselves in the Bahá'í standards of virtue and upright conduct are among the paramount duties of every young Bahá'í.

He said the UK saw its paramount obligation was the legal duty to extradite Assange.

Parallel to Wahhabi-inspired radicals' vicious campaign against the world religious heritage, Saudi Arabia has vetoed millions of Muslims out of their pilgrimage – essentially violating an entire religious community's most basic human rights, and most paramount religious duty.

The regulations of Congress being constitutionally paramount, the duties imposed thereby upon the officers of the United States, so far as they have respect to the same matters, must necessarily be paramount to those to be performed by the officers of the State.